On Episode 198 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Principal Investigator Dr. Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle about the Dragonfly mission, its origins, progress and what to expect in the coming years.
One of the most exciting missions to ever journey to the outer solar system has the be the Dragonfly multi-rotor helicopter that will head to Saturn's moon Titan in 2028. The car-sized probe will arrive at that strange, frozen world in 2034, descending into the soupy, smoggy atmosphere and then taking flight before it even touches the ground!
Dr. Turtle took us through a narrated tour of the surface of Titan, with its hydrocarbon sand dunes and methane seas. The Dragonfly mission will be an adventure of a lifetime!
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Space news of the week
- NASA just fueled up its Artemis 2 moon rocket in 2nd critical test. Was it a success? (It sure looked like it.)
- 'We almost did have a really terrible day.' NASA now says Boeing's 1st Starliner astronaut flight was a 'Type A mishap'
- NASA’s Perseverance Now Autonomously Pinpoints Its Location on Mars
- Dr. Elizabeth Turtle
- Flights of Exploration Across Saturn's Moon Titan
- Dragonfly - NASA
- What Is Dragonfly?
- NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Reveals Mystery Lakes on Saturn's Moon Titan
- Titan Touchdown
- A Flight Over the Surface of Saturn's Moon Titan
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